"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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Keith Hosman KC8TCQ wrote:

I went up and worked with the Fulton County club(K8BXQ) for Field Day.

Man I think I got bit by the DX bug, worked 20 meters all the time I was
operating, until about 4:30 (EDT) AM this morning(Sunday). Worked a few
alaska stations, a few stations in the Virgin Islands, tried to work a
Hawaii station but he was working a huge pileup.

For some reason I had trouble getting heard when responding to CQs.
Might have been
too much QRM. Was running about 50 watts into a multiband vertical.


That will make it more difficult to break through. But part of FD is to
learn how to deal with the QRM, different power settings, different
antennas, etc.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE